RESULT: uk.community.firefighting PASSES Author: UK USENET VOTETAKER Email: ukvoting@ellery.demon.co.uk Date: 1997/07/13 Forums: uk.net.news.config, uk.net.news.announce, bit.listserv.fire-l, alt.firefighters, can.schoolnet.firefighters, Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESULT Creation of uk.community.firefighting Voting closed 23:59:59 GMT, Monday 30th June 1997. This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UK-VOTING. UK-VOTING is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on CFV's in the uk hierarchy. The rules under which this vote was taken are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL: ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting. Further information on UK-VOTING can be found at http://www.harlech.demon.co.uk For voting questions only contact ukvoting@ellery.demon.co.uk (Rod Ellery). For questions about the proposed new group contact flapper@norman.u-net.com (Richard Norman) Distribution: bit.listserv.fire-l, alt.firefighters can.schoolnet.firefighters uk.net.news.config uk.net.news.announc. SUMMARY OF RESULT : uk.community.firefighting PASSES 37:2:2 Summary: uk.community.firefighting fire safety and UK fire and rescue services Rationale: People on the internet who want to discuss firefighting topics in the UK are increasingly using the internet for communication and discussion. Unfortunately they are hampered by the fact that most of the information and news groups are US based. This means that UK and other countries information resources in this area are swamped by the US traffic, making it hard to communicate at a national level. Newsgroups covering this topic include : bit.listserv.fire-l (moderated, lots of US and some international traffic) alt.firefighters (fairly new, un-moderated US biased) can.schoolnet.firefighters (not very busy but good international mix) uk.community.firefighting would fit into this list as a communication medium for anyone asking UK specific questions and discussing UK issues. I would envisage the group to be used by : firefighters (fulltime, part time and voluntary) fire safety officers from any business public interested in fire safety firefighting equipment manufacturers CHARTER: For the discussion of topics, and the speedy dissemination of information relating to the UK fire service industry. Advertising: Adverts for fire related products encouraged. Non profession related commercial or personal advertising not permitted. Binaries and HTML: No binaries of any kind are allowed; however pointers to fire fighting related binaries on WWW or FTP sites are acceptable. Moderated: This group will not be moderated. END CHARTER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Count --------- There were 42 ballots received from individual accounts, of which 41 were deemed valid. YES votes : 37 NO votes : 2 Abstain : 2 Rejected : 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FINAL VOTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following list of addresses is copyright 1997 by Rod Ellery. Use for any purpose other than verifying the vote for this newsgroup is prohibited. Votes in Favour --------------- Alan Williams Andrew Witham Andy B R D Palmer Chris Hawkins David Jones Dick Cardwell William A Bongiorno Richard Norman Paul Tomlin Gary Pearson Tony Stockford John Cook James Grove Jim Worley John Steele Joyce Wilson Kenneth Gray M Jones Matthew Russell Dave Mayall N C Fernandez Dave JW Day Neville Mooney Peter Bruce Peter Parry Dr Rachel Norman Ron Gillies Roger Venison Roy Stilling Graeme Bowser Tim Grant Thomas Lee Warrren Dwyer Dennis Symons Yves Gaffarel Geoffrey Smith Votes Against --------------- Julian White Paul Carpenter Abstentions ----------- jAmES Lawson Simon Gray Votes in Error -------------- Chris Clough SPAM BLOCK Votetakers Comments -------------------- There appeared to be none of the recently seen attempts at multiple voting during this Ballot. My only concern was the amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail generated by my CFV postings. As a result several sites will be added to my killfile. -- Rod Ellery - Volunteer Votetaker,UK-VOTING. ukvoting(at)ellery.demon.co.uk please use rod(at)ellery.demon.co.uk for personal mail. UK-VOTING web pages are at http://www.harlech.demon.co.uk/ukvoting.htm